1,848 Quotes About Doors

  • Author Diana Gabaldon
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    When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.

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  • Author Elizabeth Gilbert
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    Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

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  • Author Elizabeth Gilbert
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    Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.

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  • Author Elizabeth Gilbert
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    Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

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  • Author Emma Goldman
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    We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

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  • Author Gordon Gee
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    I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

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  • Author Graham Greene
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    Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?

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  • Author Greta Garbo
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    The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

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